Three Yemeni policemen were killed on Tuesday in a suicide attack in Bayda province. The attack was followed by clashes in which a local Al-Qaeda chief also died.

Three Yemeni policemen were killed on  Tuesday in a suicide attack in Bayda province. The attack was followed by clashes in which a local Al-Qaeda chief also died.

"Three policemen were killed and six others were wounded in a suicide attack on a checkpoint in Suwadeya," a security official said, referring to a village in Bayda province, south of Sanaa.

The attack, carried out with a bomb-laden vehicle, was followed by clashes between extremists and security forces in which the province's Al-Qaeda chief, Naser al-Dhafri, and another militant were killed, the source said.
He accused Dhafri of being the "mastermind" behind Tuesday's attack.

The militants also managed to capture two policemen during the fighting, the official said, requesting anonymity.